Volume 49, Number 16 · October 24, 2002
Heir of a Dark History
By J.M. Coetzee
After Nature
by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hamburger
Random House, 116 pp., $21.95
W.G. Sebald was born in 1944 in the corner of southern Germany where Germany, Austria, and Switzerland converge. In his early twenties he left for England to further his studies in German literature, and spent most of his working life teaching there at a provincial university. By the time of his death in 2001 he had a solid body of academic publications to his name, mainly on the literature of Austria.
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